Voltaire’s Candide, Part 1
Tafelrunde in Sanssouci (Voltaire to the left, purple, next to Casanova, red lapels), Adolph von Menzel, 1850 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Voltaire the celebrity, but… A favourite guest of celebrities...
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Tafelrunde in Sanssouci (Voltaire to the left, purple, next to Casanova, red lapels), Adolph von Menzel, 1850 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Quotations From Candide “It is demonstrable,” said he [Dr...
View ArticleThe Idea of Absolute Music
Renaissance Hurdy-Gurdy This article was posted in 2011, but the distinction between absolute and programmatic music is worth revisiting. The 2011 post contained the word “ineffable” and reads as...
View ArticleLa Henriade
Voltaire (portrait by Nicolas de Largillière, c. 1724) The ostensible subject [of La Henriade] is the siege of Paris in 1589 by Henry III in concert with Henry of Navarre, soon to be Henry IV, but its...
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